News Releases
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Extended – One Additional Performance Sunday, April 15 at 2 p.m.WIT’S END III: LOVE LIFEWritten, directed and performed by Sandra ShamasTickets for Extension Go On Sale Wednesday at Noon!
April 10, 2012
Due to overwhelming demand, the NAC English Theatre has extended with one additional performance for Sandra Shamas’ WIT’S END III: LOVE LIFE, Sunday, April 15 at 2 pm. One of Canada’s most celebrated comic artists, Sandra Shamas came into her own as a performer, writer and producer in the mid 1980s with My Boyfriend's Back and There's Gonna Be Laundry. Two... Read more
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Pinchas Zukerman shines as viola soloist and conductor of Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra on April 21 at Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto
April 5, 2012
National Arts Centre Orchestra Music Director Pinchas Zukerman leads the NAC Orchestra – and is viola soloist – in a concert on Saturday April 21 at 7:30 p.m. at Toronto’s Roy Thomson Hall. Well-known writer-broadcaster Eric Friesen hosts the concert. PearTree Financial Services is the NAC Orchestra Toronto Touring Partner. This concert marks the NAC Orchestra’s fifteenth... Read more
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Pinchas Zukerman leads brilliant NAC Orchestra soloists and guest artists – including Jon Kimura Parker -- in Brandenburg Concerti, a rare performance of all six Brandenburg Concerti in one concert. The seventh NAC Orchestra Bostonian Bravo Series concert of the season is at the National Arts Centre on April 19-20
April 4, 2012
In the seventh Bostonian Bravo Series concert of the 2011-2012 season, Music Director Pinchas Zukerman conducts the National Arts Centre Orchestra and also performs as violin and viola soloist. Featured in this superb concert are Concertmaster Yosuke Kawasaki, Joanna G’froerer and Emily Marks (flute), Charles Hamann (oboe), and guest artists Andrew McCandless (trumpet) and Jon Kimura... Read more
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Tickets for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring In Concert at the National Arts Centre go on sale on Thursday April 12
April 3, 2012
Tickets for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring In Concert go on sale to the general public on Thursday April 12 at 10 a.m. This special presentation -- sure to thrill both music lovers and film buffs -- includes a screening of Peter Jackson’s 2001 full-length film with the music performed live by the NAC Orchestra. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring In Concert... Read more
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The National Arts Centre English Theatre presents Communionby Daniel MacIvordirected by Linda MooreProduced by KAZAN Co-op (Halifax, NS)April 10 - 21, 2012NAC Studio
April 2, 2012
Ottawa, ON, April 2, 2012 – In this riveting play from Daniel MacIvor, one of Canada’s most respected playwrights, three women are at a turning point - a mother, a daughter and a therapist - desperately search for meaning and connection. Leda has a secret. When her psychotherapist does the unthinkable and offers concrete advice, Leda acts on it – before it’s too late.... Read more
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The National Ballet of Canada presents The Seagull at the NAC from April 12 to 14, 2012
March 29, 2012
Celebrating their 60th anniversary season, The National Ballet of Canada presents choreographer John Neumeier’s critically acclaimed narrative ballet The Seagull, in NAC’s Southam Hall from April 12 to 14, 2012. An adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s brilliant play by the same name, the Russian writer’s classic work lends itself to the language of dance – the world of... Read more
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WIT’S END III: LOVE LIFEWritten, directed and performed by Sandra ShamasLimited Engagement!NAC Theatre April 10 – 14, 2012
March 29, 2012
Sandra Shamas is at her wit's end, but her show must go on... Sandra Shamas returns to the NAC for the first time since 2004 with her latest production, WIT’S END III: LOVE LIFE for five performances only! One of Canada’s most celebrated comic artists, Sandra Shamas came into her own as a performer, writer and producer in the mid 1980s with My Boyfriend's Back and... Read more
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MARGUERITE(18 months to 4 years)April 11 to 15, 2012
March 29, 2012
“When I was a little tiny boy… when I was a little tiny girl… when I was a little tiny fish in the sea… a little tiny fish in my mother… I was just a wee bit of a boy… a wee bit of a girl.” Thus begins the play, the words spoken by a chorus telling the tale of a life, the before and after, back when Marguerite was but a glimmer, a tiny promise of a... Read more
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The National Arts Centre is thrilled to announce the appointment of Jillian Keiley as the new Artistic Director of English Theatre
March 27, 2012
Ottawa (Canada)—The National Arts Centre (NAC) is delighted to announce that Jillian Keiley, an award-winning Director from St. John’s, Newfoundland and the founder of the “Artistic Fraud” Theatre Company will be the next Artistic Director of the NAC’s English Theatre Department. “Jillian Keiley is a brilliant theatrical artist who is rooted in... Read more
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PHOTO-ROMANCEApril 4 to 7, 2012, at 8 p.m.
March 26, 2012
A play that met with great acclaim at the Avignon Festival in July 2009, Photo-Romance is a comic and critical evocation of contemporary Lebanon presented in the form of an animated photo story. Born in the late 1960s, the artists Lina Saneh and Rabih Mroué grew up during the civil war. In this piece, which is making its North American début at the NAC, they are “both the same... Read more
